Possibly, but he has already established that he isn’t taking any other Americans in to that meeting.
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I don’t know if there is a law, because nobody ever contemplated a President doing something so reckless.
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Handing off the thumb drive?
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With a band of leaping and yelling villagers behind him, the banjo song from Deliverance blaring out from their 1960s transistor radios as they eagerly follow every twist and turn of his stumbling path into the wilderness.
ETA: A slightly different view is offered by Sean Spicer who in his new book describes Trump as “a unicorn, riding a unicorn over a rainbow” [this is not a joke!]. I guess everyone has their own truth, right?
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I want one of these soooooooo bad!!
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Etsy will make your wish a reality.
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Well Donnie…he’s MY enemy but then I’m not angling for Trump Moscow.
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Slight correction, a eunuch riding a unicorn over a rainbow.
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I know this wasn’t your point, but Trump is confusing strategy and tactics. Strategy isn’t a secret, tactics typically are. Shoot, even in D-Day, the Germans knew we had a whole lot of people coming over. Exactly when and where was a secret, but everyone knew a lot of people were coming.
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Putin is not Trump’s enemy.
Putin is the enemy of the United States.
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But it may be all about him when Mueller writes his report. Patience, young Grasshopper.
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Not only is there no such law, but presidents have had one-on-one encounters before without their staff present (albeit with interpreters in some cases).
Among recent presidents both Obama and Trump have had staff-free encounters with Putin.
In Obama’s case it was less than enthusiastic.
In Trump’s case, almost exactly a year ago he had an hour-long one-on-one discussion with Putin over dinner; the only translator was provided by Putin.
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“All I can say is ‘Did you?’ and ‘Don’t do it again’”
Well, this self-proclaimed ‘very tough on Russia’ guy could stop ignoring the Russia sanctions law that even our feckless Congress was able to pass with a veto-proof majority. What a f’ing idiot, who thinks he’s talking to other idiots when he makes these ridiculous statements. (On the other hand, maybe he’s right…he is talking to his base.)
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That list of mental limitations is a work of art. I was trying to figure out how to add that he was deliberately downplaying the significance of it, but I don’t have a term. He acts like the act of interfering with the election is on a par with snitching a cookie from the cookie jar, or driving 40 in a 35 mph zone. No big. We’ll just talk about it and it’ll be cool.
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Stop trying to pretend as if Trump has the interests of anyone but himself and Russia/Putin at heart. It will make things much easier both intellectually and emotionally.
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Minimizing? Trivializing? I’m not sure there’s one perfect term for that process, but I sure know what you mean. He talks about it like it was a minor annoyance, like a neighbor’s tree intruding into his yard. And the only way to find out anything is to ask Putin; there are no other sources of information. And the only response is to say stop it.
The implication that he’ll actually say those things is a whole other thing.
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“… ultimately he’s a competitor. … Not a question of friend or enemy. He is not my enemy. Hopefully some day, maybe he will be a friend. It could happen.”
All personal feelings aside, do his transgressions toward the Baltic States and other Eastern European nations mean anything to you? Does his nefarious infiltration into your campaign mean anything to you? Does his hacking of American voting systems mean anything to you? Does his murder of his political opponents and journalists mean anything to you? Does his vision of a broken America mean anything to you?
No?
Then you are not fit to be POTUS.
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Putin may not be Trump’s enemy, but Trump is certainly Putin’s tool/fool.
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Press Secretary Sanders
You say “nefarious infiltration,” I say “hand of friendship.” We’ll just agree to disagree.
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He funneled me money he and his fellow rulers of Russia stole from their people, to keep my Real Estate Development and other Trump Family businesses afloat after almost every bank in the world said “No More Credit For You!” But other than that…and hacking the DNC emails…and using Wikileaks as a front for their intelligence service…and working with Cambridge Analytica to target voters in the Swing States I just happened to win…and hacking the election systems of the States I just happened to win…I mean other than those sorts of things…we are not friends…YET…And, by the way, Absolutely No Collusion has been found…
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